Gravity's shadow : the search for gravitational waves / Harry Collins.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XXIII, 870 p., [16] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. Common acronyms in gravitational wave research. Introduction: Two kinds of space-time. Pt. 1. A la recherche des ondes perdues: 1. The start of a new science 2. From idea to experiment 3. What are gravitational waves? 4. The first published results 5. The reservoir of doubt 6. The first experiments by others 7. Joe Weber's findings begin to be rejected in the constitutive forum 8. Joe Weber fights back 9. The consensus is formed 10. An attempt to break the regress: the calibration of experiments 11. Forgotten waves 12. How waves spread. Pt. 2. Two new technologies: 13. The start of cryogenics 14. Nautilus 15. Nautilus, November 1996 to June 1998 16. The spheres 17. The start of interferometry 18. Caltech enters the game. Pt. 3. Bar wars: 19. The science of the life after death of room-temperature bars 20. Scientific institutions and life after death 21. Room-temperature bars and the policy regress 22. Scientific cultures 23. Resonant technology and the National science foundation review 24. Ripples and conferences 25. Three more conferences and a funeral 26. The downtrodden masses 27. The funding of LIGO and its consequences. Pt. 4. The interferometers and the interferometeers, from small science to big science: 28. Moving technology: what is in a large interferometer? 29. Moving Earth: the sites 30. Moving people: from small science to big science 31. The beginning of coordinated science 32. The drever affair 33. The end of the skunk works 34 Regime 3: the coordinators 35. Mechanism versus magic 36. The 40-meter team versus the new management, continued 37. Regime 4 (and 5): the collaboration. Pt. 5. Becoming a new science: 38. Pooling data: prospects and problems 39. International collaboration among the interferometer groups 40. When is science? The meaning of upper limits. Pt. 6. Science, scientists and sociology: 41. Coming on air: the study and science 42. Methodology as the meeting of two cultures: the study, scientists and the public 43. Final reflections: the study and sociology 44. Joe Weber: a personal and methodological note. Coda: March-April 2004. Appendices: 1. What is small? 2. Gravitational waves, gravitational radiation and gravity waves: a note on terminology 3. Roger Babson's essay Gravity: our enemy number one. References. Index
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